Re: [Sheflug] Slackware RPM Problem

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Thanks for your help. I've been using alien to convert them for a while but I thought I message and see if anyone could help me. If I install an RPM without dependencies will it just use the libs from /usr/libs or whatever?
> 
> Darrell
> 

Have you tried looking at www.linuxmafia.org? This is the main distribution 
centre for Slack packages. RPM's will tend to be redhat-centric, so are 
built with Redhat dependancies in mind. Forcing dependancies is probably 
the easiest way to do it :)

Chris...

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